A520 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 24 April 2016 at 11:57 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A520 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 11:57 on Sunday 24 April 2016. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2016
- Sunday, 11:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03886, longitude -2.05335, in the ST9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wetley Rocks.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016210063396
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 520
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1998.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 8 October 1998
8 m awayRef 1998218122304
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 24 May 1990
12 m awayRef 1990210404082
Slight
Volvo crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1 September 2000
22 m awayRef 2000210216066
Slight
Car crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 12 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983213400193
Serious
Car crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 27 September 1979
22 m awayRef 1979219400360
Slight
Car crash on the A520 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 2 July 1989
30 m awayRef 1989219402521
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2016210063396 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2016.